We take our seats in Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and the lights go down, only for a spotlight to pick out one of the audience seated in the front row. It’s Improbable’s Phelim McDermott (writer/director), and he starts the show in a very informal manner, chatting to his neighbour in the next seat and telling […]
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Philip Glass/Phelim McDermott/Improbable: The Tao of Glass
August 11th, 2019 by Edward Taylor
Damon Albarn / Moira Buffini: wonder.land
July 10th, 2015 by Edward TaylorA few minutes before the start of the show the lights have gone down and the woman next to me is pleading with the usher (who has asked her to switch her laptop off) to let her finish her Facebook messaging. When the usher leaves the woman carries messaging from within her handbag in the dark […]